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- New York beginner farmer education at Cornell
- New farmers - or farmers looking for more profitable enterprises - can start turning their dreams into reality with the help of a new online course offered by the New York Beginning Farmer Project.
- Construction begins on biofuels research laboratory
- Talk about your total makeovers-The old power and machinery lab at the back of Riley Robb Hall is going state-of-the-art with a $10 million boost from the Empire State Development Corporation.
- Local governments receive CaRDI training
- A CaRDI certification program is helping county and municipal leaders learn how to collaborate and consolidate to keep costs in check.
- One millionth eBird checklist registered
- Birders have been flocking to eBird, a free, year-round, online checklist of bird observations from all over North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Hortus Forum travels to the Netherlands
- Thirteen lucky students experienced Dutch and German horticulture and people culture during a semester-break trip funded by flower sales and the Susan Eckert Lynch Plant Sciences Research and Travel Fund.
- Hands across Asia
- From marker-assisted plant breeding to microcredit to biofuels to goat husbandry, a new world opened up for the students who traveled to India and Thailand as part of Cornell's International Agriculture in the Developing Nations II (IARD 602) class in January.
- New York Farm Viability Institute grants
- The New York Farm Viability Institute awarded a record $3.7 million in new grants to CALS faculty and Cornell Cooperative Extension experts for 27 projects across the state.
- Cornell partners with Indian university to offer innovative degree in food science
- Cornell and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University will offer the first-ever U.S.-Indian dual master's degree program in food processing, technology, marketing, and engineering beginning this fall.